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232 crania from many widely-separated regions of the earth; 253 crania of animals; of birds 267; and of reptiles and fishes 81: making 1,468 specimens—the number of which, in the course of the last ten years, has been considerably increased.

"Dr. Morton's great work, 'Crania Americana,' was published in 1839, and it was favorably noticed in the leading European scientific publications."

16th. At New York,, L.L.D., aged 51, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the Free Academy of the City of New York. Dr. Ross was a native of the northern parts of Pennsylvania, and graduated with high honor at West Point in 1821. He was in the army till 1839. During this interval, he was employed for ten years as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at West Point, and while in that station he published a translation of the celebrated French treatise on Algebra by Bourdon. He afterwards served through the Florida war against the Indians.

In 1840, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics in Kenyon College, Ohio, an office which he filled with much credit, till he was appointed to the situation which he held at the time of his death.

Dr. Ross was possessed of rare attainments as a mathematician, and his amiable disposition endeared him to all who knew him. His death was justly considered a public loss by the Trustees and patrons of the Free Academy.

20th. At Portsmouth, N. H., Hon., aged 68. Judge of the Police Court in that city. He had held several public offices in New Hampshire, and was a member of Congress from 1835 to 1839.

26th. At New Haven, Conn., Hon., aged 89,. [sic] He was born at Norwich, on the 14th of December, 1761, and graduated at Yale College in 1781. In 1783 he was appointed a Tutor in the College, and continued in that situation till 1786, when he was admitted to the bar at New Haven, and commenced the practice of the law. In 1790, he was appointed, by Judge Law, Clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, and continued to perform the duties of that office, in connection with an extensive professional practice in the State Courts, until the fall of 1803, when he was elected a Representative in the Eighth Congress of the United States. Having attended two sessions of that Congress, he declined a re-election, and resumed his practice at the bar.

In 1806, Mr. Baldwin was appointed by the Legislature an As-